Imus tells Eisenhorn that he found an ‘error’ and ‘aberration’… a void appeared in his ledger, something that shouldn’t be there. I love this audio drama – it’s very atmospheric – it’s dark with an air of creepiness. This shorter audio drama takes place as an interrogation – and excellently voiced Imus and the not-out-of-place Eisenhorn is believable. Over time, Imus confesses to having discovered something alarming and something that shouldn’t exist – the number of Ruin, the number of Chaos. Master Imus’s Trangression is the story of an auction houses accountant, voluntarily offers himself up to Inquisitor Eisenhorn (whom he believes just an Arbiters officer). You’ve a mix of suspension and investigatory elements, along with the usual action that is a staple of Black Library. I’m going to be honest I found all these audio dramas to be excellent. Thorn and Talon is a collection of audio dramas focusing upon the brilliant Eisenhorn, an Inquisitor of the Holy Inquisition. “My best friend Billy kept beating me at Rock-Paper-Scissors, so I had him publicly accused of Heresy and he was executed by being bathed in holy promethium in front of the Schola.
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as a management-consulting firm, along the lines of McKinsey & Company. So, I would like to propose another metaphor for the risks of artificial intelligence. If your reading of the parable is that, when you are granted a wish by the gods, you should phrase your wish very, very carefully, then you have missed the point. The point of the Midas parable is that greed will destroy you, and that the pursuit of wealth will cost you everything that is truly important. There are multiple problems with this metaphor, but one of them is that it derives the wrong lessons from the tale to which it refers. doing what you tell it to do instead of what you want it to do. The metaphor is meant to highlight the difficulty of making powerful entities obey your commands the computer scientist Stuart Russell has cited the parable of King Midas, who demanded that everything he touched turn into gold, to illustrate the dangers of an A.I. For example, it’s become very common to compare powerful A.I.s to genies in fairy tales. Metaphors are, by their nature, imperfect, but we still need to choose them carefully, because bad ones can lead us astray. When we talk about artificial intelligence, we rely on metaphor, as we always do when dealing with something new and unfamiliar. When we returned to Building Seven at 3:00 a.m., there were still a few people grinding away. But it's precisely this ability to narrow-focus that makes them so good at code writing: one line at a time, one line in a strand of millions. Nerds get what they want when they want it, and they go psycho if it's not immediately available. Because of all the rich nerds living around here, Redmond and Bellevue are very "on-demand" neighborhoods. The Safeway was completely empty save for us and a few other Microsoft people just like us - hair-trigger geeks in pursuit of just the right snack. 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Though he struggles to escape, John is drawn steadily closer to a fate he shares with Kyle-to wake the destroyer god, the Rifter, and shatter a world.īuy Links: Amazon | Blind Eye Books | ARe | B&N | Kobo | iTunes | Add to Goodreads When John opens a letter addressed to his missing roommate, Kyle, he expects to find a house key, but instead he is swept into a strange realm of magic, mysticism, revolutionaries and assassins. This book and author has often been recommended to me and I was eager to give this book a try. I absolutely LOVE great fantasy books and I have found several great ones in the LGBT Fiction genre. RGR received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. The print version of ‘The Shattered Gates’ includes Rifter books 1-3 and is 368 pages long. This book was published by Blind Eye Books on May 1st, 2011 and is about 110 pages long. Marc reviews ‘The Shattered Gates’ (Rifter 1) by Ginn Hale. 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Legend says that her ancestors first gained their magic by facing a storm and stealing part of its essence. And the people selling it? They’re not Stormlings. When she dons a disguise and sneaks out of the palace one night to spy on him, she stumbles upon a black market dealing in the very thing she lacks-storm magic. But the more secrets Aurora uncovers about him, the more a future with him frightens her. He’ll guarantee her spot as the next queen and be the champion her people need to remain safe. At first, the prince seems like the perfect solution to all her problems. To keep her secret and save her crown, Aurora’s mother arranges for her to marry a dark and brooding Stormling prince from another kingdom. But she’s yet to show any trace of the magic she’ll need to protect her people. She’s intelligent and brave and honorable. As the sole heir of Pavan, Aurora’s been groomed to be the perfect queen. Long ago, the ungifted pledged fealty and service to her family in exchange for safe haven, and a kingdom was carved out from the wildlands and sustained by magic capable of repelling the world’s deadliest foes. In a land ruled and shaped by violent magical storms, power lies with those who control them.Īurora Pavan comes from one of the oldest Stormling families in existence. |